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June 22, 2009

CREW Files FOIA Request With Secret Service for Records of Health Care Execs White House Visits

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Washington, D.C. - Today, CREW filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Secret Service seeking records of visits to the White House by top health care executives. CREW seeks to learn the degree of influence these executives have had, or attempted to have, on the president and his administration in formulating the administration’s health care policy. CREW also sought expedition of its request in light of the public’s need to weigh in on an issue of enormous economic and social impact. Noting the Obama administration’s position that the requested records are presidential records not subject to the FOIA, an issue on which the courts have held to the contrary, CREW requested alternatively that the Secret Service make a discretionary release of the requested White House visitor logs.

Read CREW's FOIA request to the Secret Service here.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a non-profit legal watchdog group dedicated to holding public officials accountable for their actions. For more information, please visit www.citizensforethics.org or contact Garrett Russo at 202.408.5565 or grusso@citizensforethics.org